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Celebrate with your Hoya friends as Georgetown’s one-of-a-kind annual alumni celebration comes to LA for the first time in 23 years! Register for unique cultural, intellectual and social events and activities throughout the weekend, including terrific GEMA panels on Friday, April 17. Register Now! Attendees can register for

On September 12 and 13, 2014 at the Gonda Theatre, Georgetown University, GEMA ROCKS VI took the stage to a packed house of alumni each night. The 6th Alumni/Student Concert featured a phenomenal collection of music and comedic talent spanning six decades and a Special Tribute to renowned singer/songwriter Bill Danoff

Toby Byrne (B ’92), President of Advertising Sales for Fox Networks Group, joined members of GEMA for a breakfast discussion on November 5th, 2014 in New York City. Topics included staying competitive through rapid technological change and the challenge of changing habits to win viewers from competitor networks and other platforms.

Whether in front of the camera or behind the scenes, Georgetown alumni have studded the Hollywood starscape for generations. Click through our slideshow for a look at the Hoyas who keep us glued to the screen and scrambling for our TiVo remotes. View Slide Show!

GEMA held its 13th Annual Careers in Entertainment and Media Panel Discussion on October 15, 2014 at the Georgetown Alumni House. The room was filled with eager students excited to learn from the distinguished alumni panelists. This year’s panelists hailed from a range of professions and included Peter Biché (B ’78),

A standing room only crowd packed the Alumni House in Washington, DC for the GEMA panel discussion, The Entertainment Industry on the Hill: Key Issues and Trends in Today’s Media Landscape on May 6, 2014. The panelists provided a lively discussion about the hottest issues impacting the expanding media industry today

Today we have a guest post from our lovely and talented student intern Aya, a Senior in the College who was selected to participate in this year’s Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance (GEMA) Externship during her spring break. Aya is the kind of Senior who you just get so excited for

Bryony Gagan oversees all of Netflix’s business and legal affairs efforts related to content production, acquisition and distribution. Ms. Gagan is responsible for all music and other collection society licensing arrangements as well as guild and labor issues related to the service. In her role, she manages the negotiation of licensing

Adam Countee (C ’03) is a writer and consulting producer on the NBC comedy series, Community. His duties include working in the writers’ room to break stories for new episodes, rewriting scripts and supervising on set during production. He has also written his own feature film, which he is hoping to produce

Eddie Hill is the Senior Vice President of 360 Consumer Marketing & Brand Strategy for BET Networks (A VIACOM Company), responsible for all facets of the consumer marketing strategy for both BET and CENTRIC, across all platforms. has led the consumer marketing campaigns for such hit programming as The Game, BET

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Georgetown Film & Media Studies Minor

This program, as part of Georgetown college, was established in 2011 to provide students with the skills needed to understand, study, and create media, while exploring vital issues related to social justice including poverty, diversity, spirituality, ethics, enlightenment, and peace.

The program evolved out of a unique alliance between the University and GEMA, which is led by Alumni Richard Battista (B’86) and Catherine Hagney Brown (C ’84). Mr. Battista and Ms. Brown championed the project, playing a key role in developing the program’s concept and in coalescing alumni and entertainment industry passion and resources for its creation.

An Evening with Carl Reiner (F’43)

On May 24, 2011, GEMA hosted a special gathering with Hollywood superstar and Georgetown alumnus Carl Reiner (F’43) at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California.

Interviewed by TV Guide Magazine’s Senior TV Critic, Matt Roush, Reiner recounted his early days in the theater, memorable years at Georgetown and his rise to Hollywood icon status. Click photo to access story. Learn More